There is a progress bar in my cultivation of immortality

The six True Lords of the Demon Clan were prepared.

Zhu Wu made the first move, summoning an ancient-looking bronze lamp. As he made hand seals and cast a spell, the lamp wick transformed into nine beams of blue light that pierced into the ground. Each beam of blue light precisely located an ancient palace, and the blue light, like a living thing, pried open the palace's foundation, quickly clearing away the restrictions buried within.

The bull demon Niu Pan took out a pair of bronze rings. The two rings struck each other, producing a dull sound. The sound waves penetrated the ground and awakened some stone bull statues deep in certain palaces. The eyes of these statues lit up with red light, and they walked with heavy steps to the array eyes in various places, using their horns to smash the array plates embedded in the ground.

Tiger Demon King Xian took out a tiger-patterned bronze mirror from his bosom. The light reflected from the mirror formed a clear projection on the ground, showing the direction of all the hidden array patterns. He pressed down with his tiger claws, and golden light flew out from the bronze mirror, cutting off each array pattern connection as precisely as a sharp blade.

The snake demon Bai Xin was the most bizarre. He transformed directly into his true form, a hundred-foot-long white-scaled giant snake that burrowed into the ground. The snake's body slithered through the palace corridors, and its scales made a piercing screeching sound as they scraped against the walls. Wherever it passed, the spiritual energy was directly imprisoned, and the palace's magic array became ineffective.

With a flicker of his body, Hou Ji, the monkey demon, instantly split into dozens of clones, each possessing an independent spatial leaping ability. They appeared and disappeared intermittently, flashing and shuttling between various ancient palaces. Whenever they encountered a restriction node, the clones would attack simultaneously, their sharp claws precisely tearing open spatial rifts and throwing the array artifacts buried deep underground directly into the void turbulence.

The rat demon Quan Xing closed his eyes and concentrated. His perception of the flow of spiritual energy was extremely keen, and he could clearly capture every abnormal fluctuation of spiritual power in the earth veins. He formed a hand seal, and his fingertips glowed with a dark blue light, outlining a complex spiritual energy network on the ground. As he lightly touched the ground with his fingers, the spiritual energy hubs at those key nodes collapsed one after another like bubbles that had been punctured.

As the six demon lords each used their methods, muffled sounds came from the depths of Zhongzhou Star, and the slowly flowing earth veins stopped.

However, it did not damage the layout on the surface, something even Wang Ping, with his current level of cultivation, could hardly achieve.

Lieyang chuckled and said, "It was indeed the right choice to entrust these matters to the demon race. The magic arrays in the underground palace were set up using their bloodline abilities and connected by the power of the earth veins. They may look like earth vein magic arrays, but they are actually just another manifestation of their bloodline power."

"This method can prevent the people of various continents on the surface from being affected when the magic array is in operation, and it can also dismantle them more efficiently. However, their residual power will last for a long time, so they need to be stationed on the outer perimeter of Zhongzhou Star for a long time to slowly extract the residual energy from the ground with their bloodline power."

As Wang Ping listened to Lieyang's account, his primordial spirit followed the spells of the six demon race true lords and quickly swept over the ancient palaces underground. There were a total of three hundred palaces. He had descended underground twice before, and even with Wang Ping's cultivation level, he could only sense the earth vein power within the palace formations, and only a slight aura of the demon race's bloodline power.

These rich ley line powers were suppressed underground by a small amount of demon bloodline, preventing them from disturbing the spiritual energy balance on the surface of Zhongzhou Star.

Now, thanks to the spell cast by the True Lords of the Demon Clan, the faint aura of the Demon Clan bloodline beneath the Central Continent Star surged dramatically, intertwining with the earth elemental energy emanating from the core region.

Wang Ping's primordial spirit clearly saw that a giant network of magic arrays interwoven with the ancient palaces underground was breaking one by one. With each break, the earth element rules became more active.

"We need at least half a year in Zhongzhou to completely clear the network of magic arrays beneath Zhongzhou Star, and it will probably take about two hundred years to clear the residual energy from them."

Zhu Wu's voice reached Wang Ping's ears, and naturally also reached the ears of the other True Lords.

Lieyang replied, "It's alright. Be careful. There's plenty of time. Just be careful not to disturb the spirituality of the earth's surface."

While they were talking, Wang Ping turned his gaze to the starry sky surrounding Zhongzhou Star. When the demon race dispelled most of the underground magic arrays, the speed at which the five elements and yin-yang spiritual energy of this starry sky converged on Zhongzhou Star increased by more than double, and they wove into a denser network of rules in the sky above Zhongzhou Star.

This is not the power of a magic array, but rather the inherent rule of this starry sky. This rule is constantly trying to nurture the life energy of Zhongzhou Star and help them grow faster. This is the most important reason why the True Lords value Zhongzhou Star.

"Half a year will pass quickly. Fellow Daoist Changqing, please conceal our presence and observe their spellcasting from this place." Tiangong's tone was full of distrust towards the demon race's True Monarchs, and he made no attempt to hide it from the demon race's True Monarchs.

Wang Ping didn't speak, but immediately used the 'Sky-Covering Talisman' to shield the aura of the starry sky where they were. Then, he saw the mysterious light around Lieyang, Tiangong, Baiyan, and Xuanqing recede, and a cloud of auspiciousness rose from their feet.

Wang Ping followed suit, but instead of paying attention to the demon lord's spellcasting, he focused most of his consciousness on the Thousand Wood Temple to check on the condition of his disciples, and soon after, he entered a meditative state.

Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. When the last restriction was broken, there was a slight tremor on the surface of the entire Zhongzhou Star, and some mountain peaks lit up with an earthy yellow light.

Wang Ping, who was in deep meditation, suddenly opened his eyes and saw the network representing the rules of the earth element fluctuating violently. Countless new branches branched out from the main vein, and these branches, like vines in spring, extended in all directions at an astonishing speed.

Soon, the entire starry sky felt this fluctuation, and all earth spirit cultivators found that the spiritual veins in their bodies suddenly became active.

Seeing that the earth elemental energy was about to break the balance of spiritual energy in Zhongzhou Star and the surrounding starry sky, the auspicious clouds under Lieyang's feet dispersed, and a fiery red light suddenly appeared behind him. He first threw the dragon pearl that the Dragon Lord had given him into the southern sea area of ​​Zhongzhou, and then instructed the True Lords of the Demon Clan: "You all continue to extract the residual energy from the ground."

When he turned to look at Tiangong, Tiangong's body shone with golden light, and countless sharp golden spiritual lights burst forth from his body; then, the fiery red light behind Lieyang shot into the sky like a volcanic eruption, and the scorching fire spiritual power condensed into a golden crow with outstretched wings above his head.

Bai Yan stood still in the void, a dark purple halo spreading out like a thin veil; the pure white yang energy shone like warm sunlight on every inch of the restless earth spirit.

Wang Ping's body shone with a brilliant emerald light, and pure wood spirit energy burst forth from his body, merging with the spiritual energy emanating from the spiritual bodies of the other True Monarchs, becoming part of the Five Elements Yin-Yang rules of this starry sky; while in the southern sea, the Dragon Pearl radiated a dazzling blue light, and vast water spirit energy soared into the sky, merging with the great net of rules.

Soon after, the concentration of spiritual energy in Zhongzhou suddenly increased several times. The first to sense the change were naturally the disciples of Xuanmen and Tianmen. They had already received the news and roughly understood what was going on. Some disciples had already prayed to their respective True Lords in their own dojos, but many more cultivators took this opportunity to intensify their cultivation.

For example, at this moment, the Thousand Wood Temple's spirit-gathering array has been fully activated, all inner disciples have entered a state of seclusion, and outer disciples have doubled their daily cultivation time.

The Zhenyang Sect went the far too far; they actually set up hundreds of towers in advance to collect energy and use them to make energy crystals.

Wang Ping sensed the density of the starry sky's spiritual energy. His primordial spirit swept over Tongyu Daoist at the foot of Dongshui Mountain in Qianmu Temple, and a smile unconsciously appeared on his face. Tongyu Daoist's consciousness was showing signs of awakening due to the abundant Five Elements Yin-Yang rules. However, he had no time to pay attention to Tongyu Daoist's awakening at the moment. He heard Lieyang say, "Fellow Daoist Changqing, we still need to trouble you to awaken Fellow Daoist Diwen. We can protect you and maintain the balance of the starry sky's spiritual energy."

Wang Ping nodded in response and conjured a 'transfer talisman'. His primordial spirit quickly descended and soon captured the massive body of Di Wen in the core area of ​​Zhongzhou Star. With a tremor in the space, the True Monarchs disappeared from their original spot.

When they reappeared, they were already near the massive physical body of the Earthly True Lord. Everyone fell silent as they looked at the Earthly True Lord's body. Then Xuan Qing said, "His slumber was because the repair of Zhongzhou Star required a large amount of earth vein energy. He could only seal his consciousness to reduce consumption, and he could not have any distracting thoughts during the repair process. Slumber was the best way."

Lieyang continued, "Back then, to prevent him from suddenly waking up, we decided to temporarily seal part of his main consciousness and deprive him of his consciousness when he woke up." As he spoke, he took out a seven-colored crystal engraved with complex magic array runes. "At that time, to prevent accidents from happening, we copied part of Fellow Daoist Diwen's main consciousness."

Tiangong added, "The Earth Spirit lineage is most energetic when it is asleep, which is one of their characteristics. However, we have tampered with it." He said, "May the Sage have mercy," and stared at Diwen's massive body, saying, "When he wakes up, I will personally apologize to him."

Upon hearing this, Wang Ping suddenly understood. No wonder the Earth Cave Sect had made so many efforts but failed to awaken Earth Script True Lord. It turned out that the True Lords had tampered with it. However, Earth Script True Lord had also gained an excellent opportunity for cultivation because of this. At this moment, the strength of the spiritual body in his body was no weaker than anyone else present.

"Stop trying to be a good guy. Just pretend this never happened. Otherwise, given Fellow Daoist Diwen's personality, he might cause some big trouble." Bai Yan's disdainful voice rang out.

“I agree with Fellow Daoist Bai Yan,” Xuan Qing stated. “We need stability now.”

When Tiangong looked at him, Lieyang chuckled and changed the subject, saying, "Let's first remove the seal on his memory, and then Fellow Daoist Changqing can use the 'Heaven-Covering Talisman' to infuse him with his original consciousness. I believe he can wake up normally."

Upon hearing this, Wang Ping suddenly felt that something was missing. He quickly realized that Yu Lian's吐槽 (tu cao, a Chinese internet slang term for sarcastic or critical comments) was missing, and a smile appeared between his brows.

Bai Yan said coldly, "Then let's stop talking nonsense and begin."

Lieyang handed the seven-colored crystal to Wang Ping and said, "This crystal was originally kept by Fellow Daoist Huishan. Later, he actually wanted to use it to turn Fellow Daoist Diwen into his puppet. This is one of the reasons why we took action against him."

His words seemed to be telling Wang Ping a story from the past, but in reality, they were a warning to Wang Ping.

Wang Ping didn't have such thoughts, but after Lie Yang's warning, he did have a fleeting moment of interest, which he then suppressed.

Then, Xuanqing threw out a gray command flag, and a colorful immortal light appeared, which quickly spread to the base of the Earthly True Monarch's mountain-like body, causing the space to tremble slightly.

In Wang Ping's view, the Five Elements and Yin-Yang rules of this space were constantly collapsing. His visual senses were as if a mirror world was shattering. He quickly realized that this was the first defensive array set up by the True Monarchs in this place, which could detect the aura of some intruders.

More importantly, it's discreet enough!

Wang Ping was thankful that he had been cautious enough when he arrived in this area and had not done anything out of line, otherwise he would have been discovered and recorded by this magic array that even he had not noticed.

Next, Bai Yan stepped forward and summoned a bronze mirror. As he changed his hand seals, a faint light shone from the mirror, illuminating the massive body of the Earthly True Monarch and revealing the complex spiritual veins within his body. These spiritual veins had a layer of gray sealing runes on their surface, which only became visible under the faint light of the bronze mirror.

This power utilizes the characteristics of Yin energy to conceal itself within other energies. Moreover, it is a method devised by a True Lord, making it virtually impossible for ordinary people to detect.

At this moment, Wang Ping once again refreshed his understanding of the strength of the other True Monarchs. They may not have cultivated enough, but because they have existed for a long time, they must have observed more rules and characteristics than he had, and the methods they used were more unpredictable and bizarre.

This seal completely locked the consciousness of the Earthly True Lord within his physical body and suppressed most of his subconscious.

At this moment, golden light appeared around Tiangong, surrounded by golden spiritual energy. He said to Wang Ping, "Next, I will use golden spiritual energy to break these seals. I will also trouble Fellow Daoist Changqing to use the 'Heaven-Stealing Talisman' to define Fellow Daoist Diwen's state and keep the earth spiritual energy flowing in his spiritual veins stable."

"it is good!"

Wang Ping nodded in agreement.

Tiangong added, "This may last for a long time, so you must stay focused. If your spiritual veins are damaged, you should use wood spirit to heal them in time."

Wang Ping nodded again.

Without further ado, Tiangong unleashed a burst of golden light around him, as countless fine gold runes surged forth from his body, transforming into golden threads that precisely pierced the gray seal on the surface of the Earthly True Monarch's spiritual veins. These golden threads moved through the spiritual veins like living things, branching out into finer branches at each sealing node, wrapping and disintegrating the runes layer by layer.

Wang Ping immediately used the Earth Spirit Rules he had gleaned from the 'Heaven Stealing Talisman' to define Earth Script True Lord in a stable state.

The cleansing process is extremely slow, and can only begin to penetrate from the smallest branch veins. The most dangerous moment occurs when the seals near the heart vein are being cleaned, where the sealing runes are exceptionally dense, almost completely covering the entire main vein.

However, everyone present was a True Monarch with incredibly powerful primordial spirits and consciousness. Although the process was somewhat complex, it was not difficult for Tiangong; it would just take some time. (End of Chapter)